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Introduction
No full textAt the 2005 Talking Stick Festival, an annual event that showcases Indigenous Performance in Vancouver, Canada, the Tsimshian/Cree performance artist Skeena Reece, offered a perspective on the developing performance traditions of First Nations song:
I figure in like a hundred years our songs are just gonna sound real different … .
They’re probably gonna sound something like this:
Reece begins to sing what sounds like a traditional song with vocables, but performs it with full operatic bravura and excessive vibrato. She concludes the aria with a rising arpeggio, ending on a high note that causes her eyes to roll up toward the back of her head. It is a parody of operatic singing at its best. Thunderous cheers and laughter erupt from audience.
What? Come on, that’s not a good thing, man. That’s not good—how’re we supposed to dance to that?
Any written transcription of Reece’s routine, be it textual or musical, cannot convey the full extent of absurdity in her adaptation of traditional singing, nor the ebullient response of the largely First Nations audience in attendance. The worlds of Indigenous cultural traditions and opera would seem to be diametrically opposed in a large majority of their aspects including performance style, participation, venue, and cultural function. In Reece’s parody we see the worlds of opera and First Nations song come together as questionable partners. Yet the conjunction of these worlds has historically been much more common in an international context than one would expect, and has often resulted in productive exchange and the reciprocal growth of both traditions. In striking contrast to what Reece and her audience hear as the incongruous pairing of cultural traditions and operatic practice, there is both a long history of operas that represent First Peoples and a lesser-known history of opera by First Peoples used to express and re-assess cultural traditions. The chapters contained within this volume explore the range of incongruities, synchronicities, and alliances between indigenous cultural practices and operatic traditions. While the representation of non-Western cultures and otherness in opera has long been a focus for critical inquiry, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes these relationships as a focus, a dressing the changing historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary uses and adaptations of the form by Indigenous and First Nations artists. The “re/presenting” of our title thus signals an important distinction between how non-Indigenous artists have represented the Indigene in opera3 and how Indigenous artists have more recently utilized opera as an interface to present and extend cultural practices
Arts of Engagement : Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
No full text" Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics. " -- Publisher's website
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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